At 10:40 AM -0400 2001/7/29, Katie Haritos-Shea wrote:
>OK...........I don't want to open the can of worms
>again...................but, saw this that David P. posted to Trace.
>Interesting Robot story from Nasa.........towards the bottom of the page it
>has a section called "Thursday's Classroom Corner" There, you can find,
>three grade-level choices, available only in text (for two), and with
>graphics for one, but it is a .PDF. Certainly this idea has existed in
>academic circles for a long time, not in web-format, however.
>http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23jul_1.htm?list438943
One of the best ways to get folks to even consider "grade-level"
when writing is to ask them to explicitly define it in metadata
somewhere -- such as PICS and other "self-rating" systems request
(of other kinds of metadata).
--Kynn
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